Serena: "Where...?"

The others are equipped in a variety of armor, Zack looking like a knight with a flaming sword, Edo is a gunslinger with electric pistols, Tori is an archer with a bow giving off a faint light, Emily is a mage with a windy tome, Roy looks like the grim reaper with a dirty scythe, Asaka also as a mage, but with a staff made of ancient wood, and Cole has a cannon giving off a faint mist.

Edo: "Welcome to the Hope server of Tomorrow's Knights!"

Serena is wearing a torn, soiled, ninja outfit, and at Lv1.

Asaka: "uh?"

Serena: "Wh-What?"

Roy: "You're Lv1?"

Serena looks to a pouch at her side.

Serena: "Isn't that normal?"

Emily: "Well, for them it had them at our Lv, but you're like any other Player, but..."

Serena opens the pouch and pulls out two shurikens giving off a black aura.

Zack: "You've got the weapon!"

Serena: "The weapon?"

Edo pulls up some information on his phone.

Edo: "You see, there are some special weapons that just got released yesterday called, 'The Elemental Set,' and we were able to get them from day 1 of the game."

Tori: "It was one strange ride."

Players shuffle throughout town.

Serena: "But how?"

Cole: "That's uh..."

Zack: "Our next step."

They all begin to walk.

Serena: "Huh?"

Emily: "Our next step is to find the guy who had you four kidnapped and somehow had access to weapons in the beta stages."

They make a left turn.

Roy: "Then we kick their ass."

Serena: "That... sounds amazing."

Edo: "And incredibly dangerous."

They stop.

Tori: "You still wiling to help?"

Serena doesn't know what to think.

Serena: "I..."

She snaps out of it.

Serena: "I will help!"

Zack has a smile on his face as he pushes a button.

Zack: "Then welcome..."

Serena receives a guild invite.

Zack: "... Gleam."

Serena accepts and is now a member of the Knights of Hope...

However...

A mysterious figure floats above the night skies.

???: "So now all eight are together..."

Green binary exits his body and forms a sort of bubble to his side.

???: "Six at most before I kill them and that bastard myself."

The bubble flies off to the south...